{"id":34278,"date":"2024-06-07T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T02:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34278"},"modified":"2024-06-07T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T02:20:41","slug":"pro-palestinian-protesters-rally-outside-harris-sf-fundraising-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/pro-palestinian-protesters-rally-outside-harris-sf-fundraising-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside Harris\u2019 SF fundraising stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Allyson%20Aleksey\">By Allyson Aleksey | Examiner staff writer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jun 5, 2024\u00a0Updated\u00a0Jun 6, 2024 (SFExaminer.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfexaminer.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/f\/92\/f92d155a-2382-11ef-a556-2325ce95b3a6\/6660d9ca8a2a0.image.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"mamaganuushprotest\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mama Ganuush speaks at a pro-Palestinian protest outside Yasmin in the Mission on Wednesday, June 5, 2024 next door to a Kamala Harris fundraising event for President Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection campaign.\u00a0Allyson Aleksey\/The Examiner<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of about 100 protestors rallied outside&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/kamala-harris-vs-donald-trump-at-dueling-sf-fundraisers\/article_1539f994-1d47-11ef-86ad-773801dca35e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 fundraising event<\/a>&nbsp;in the Mission on Wednesday, calling attention to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris was in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon to attend a reelection fundraiser leading up to the November presidential election, a day before former President Donald Trump was set to attend a campaign fundraiser in Pacific Heights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Demonstrators criticized Harris and the United States\u2019 continued financial and military support of Israel\u2019s operations against Hamas following the group\u2019s Oct. 7 attack in the country. Hamas militants killed around 1,200 people that day, most of whom were Israeli civilians, and took around 250 hostages, according to Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli forces have killed more than 36,000 Palestinians during the country\u2019s subsequent military campaign, according to health officials in Gaza. That figure doesn\u2019t differentiate between civilians and militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arab Resource and Organizing Center Executive Director Lara Kiswani, whose organization was one of the local groups behind the protest, said that the vice president \u201ccannot expect to fundraise and campaign in our backyard without facing residents who\u2019ve been working tirelessly to end this war and defeat fascism at home and abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVice President Harris has touted herself an advocate for women\u2019s health, racial justice, and democracy against the threat of the far right, but continues to give full political, economic, and military backing to the racist and apartheid Israeli government that has killed tens of thousands of women and children,\u201d Kiswani said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/11969701\/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mama Ganuush, a local queer Palestinian artist<\/a>&nbsp;and speaker at the rally, said his family went to the Rafah border to wait for safe passage last month. But Israeli troops seized control of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rafah-offensive-israel-netanyahu-hamas-palestinians-014b2d850bbe28897b624bc5e5378320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gaza\u2019s Rafah border crossing<\/a>&nbsp;on May 7, preventing aid from entering Palestine and refugees from leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy family now are starving to death in Palestine. This is because of these people, funding genocide right here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Danielle Otlin, a Noe Valley resident, said she felt compelled to join the rally because she \u201cknows the pain of losing a child\u201d \u2014 her son Jude was delivered stillborn in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had the comfort of mourning my son, we were able to stay in the hospital with him. To say goodbye to your child, even in the best of circumstances, has forever changed me,\u201d she told The Examiner. \u201cTo see so many children be murdered, shredded, decapitated, and seeing [politicians] do nothing, is beyond my comprehension.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otlin said she understands joining these protests \u201ccan be seen as controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough it shouldn\u2019t be, and I am coming from a place of privilege,\u201d she said. \u201cBut this is important to me, and I\u2019m not afraid of [losing] my job, or any other consequence, because I\u2019m participating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bay Area is the last leg of Harris\u2019 reelection fundraising marathon along the West Coast. Harriss arrived in Southern California on May 30, with people protesting the Israel-Hamas war \u2014 and U.S. engagement in it \u2014 have disrupted campaign efforts in major cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pro-Palestinian&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\/news\/local-news\/protester-arrested-during-vice-president-harris-visit-to-san-diego-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protester was arrested in San Diego<\/a>&nbsp;on May 31 for jumping in front of Harris\u2019 motorcade, preventing her from entering a reelection fundraiser there, according to San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Department Lieutenant Gavin Lanning. Harris visited Seattle last weekend, attending multiple campaign fundraisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pro-Palestinian protesters also organized in Oakland on Wednesday ahead of a Biden-Harris fundraising event at a private home in Rockridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These Oakland and San Francisco protests followed major demonstrations across the Bay Area over the last nine months, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/education\/sfsu-pro-palestine-protests-calm-in-columbia-ucla-aftermath\/article_ec161e6c-080b-11ef-a607-af440096efef.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solidarity campouts at major universities<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/the-city\/chp-arrests-pro-palestine-protestors-in-bay-bridge-shutdown\/article_7b9d9486-84a2-11ee-898b-13d3b5dcb202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blockades on the Bay Bridge<\/a>&nbsp;and Golden Gate Bridge, and protests outside of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/joe-biden-kamala-harris-sf-event-rakes-in-3m-protestors\/article_b7400696-83de-11ee-876e-a77d19b6b1d4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harris and President Joe Biden\u2019s San Francisco visit<\/a>&nbsp;in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/03\/03\/1235712368\/kamala-harris-gaza-ceasefire-israel-aid\" target=\"_blank\">Harris called for an immediate, temporary cease-fire<\/a>\u00a0in Gaza to support a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, calling the situation in Gaza a \u201chumanitarian crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/pro-palestinian-protesters-rally-outside-harris-sf-fundraising-stop\/article_4f1c7b6e-2382-11ef-8c7e-2f30a1c8d271.html\">https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/pro-palestinian-protesters-rally-outside-harris-sf-fundraising-stop\/article_4f1c7b6e-2382-11ef-8c7e-2f30a1c8d271.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of about 100 protestors rallied outside&nbsp;Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 fundraising event&nbsp;in the Mission on Wednesday, calling attention to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Harris was in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon to attend a reelection fundraiser leading up to the November presidential election, a day before former President&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/pro-palestinian-protesters-rally-outside-harris-sf-fundraising-stop\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34282,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278\/revisions\/34282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}